SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Power, High Throughput MWIR Fused Fiber Combiner
Award amount
$179,783Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2024-04-30
- Contract end date
- 2025-01-29
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- 23.3
- Topic code
- AF233-0024
Research abstract
Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), in collaboration with Thorlabs’ fluoride optical fiber and optical fiber processing groups, proposes to develop a high power, compact laser system that combines outputs from 20 high power MWIR QCLs using a custom, high throughput 10x1 fused fluoride fiber combiner to achieve up to 60W output power from a single output fiber. The fiber-coupled output of our proposed system could be coupled to a larger beam delivery system, such as a beam director, for long distance directed energy applications.
Technology keywords
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- High power MWIR optical fiber combiner
- Optical Fiber Combiner for Combining MWIR QCL Beams
- High power MWIR optical fiber combiner
- Fiber-based High-Power Mid-IR Beam Combiner
- Mid-Wave Infrared (MWIR) Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) Combiner
Research funding history
1,763 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $698,949,224. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency